will claim an interest in the thoughts of statesmen. Near Fortress Monroe, in the Sea Islands of South Carolina, in New Orleans, and in its neighboring parishes, they have already tried the new-born gift of liberty, with success and honor. In a few brief years, we shall have paid the national debt incurred during the present war, by the enlarged value which freedom will have given to the property of the rebel States, the increased productive ability of freedmen over slaves, and their multiplied power to buy and consume the products of manufactures and the arts. The people of America will have saved the Union, saved democratic-republican liberty, both menaced by the same dangers, will have perpetuated the government, magnified the Constitution and made it honorable, and will have crowned a great career of glory with an act of expedient justice unequalled for its grandeur in all the history of mankind. [A.] Troops sent into Federal Service since the outbreak of the Rebellion. 2 companies Heavy Artillery, to be attached 1 company Heavy Artillery, for garrison for |